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<\/a>Worms<\/p><\/div>\n
At the same time as I felt horrified I also felt hopeful. Maybe this is what is wrong with Sparkle and if that is the case it is easily remedied.<\/p>\n
We had only been saying yesterday that it was time to worm the girls but I said that I wanted to get Sparkle eating properly first. No time for that now. I had some flubenvet in stock and I had a tin of fish in the cupboard.<\/p>\n
Back went Sparkle into the cat box with a little dish of fish laced with fubenvet. I put some fish and flubenvet in two dishes for the rest of the girls. I knew that the only way I could get Sparkle to take hers was to separate her as she wouldn’t be able to compete with the other girls.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Sparkle is back in the cat box<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Flubenvet on fish for the rest of the girls<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The fish and meds are gone in seconds<\/p><\/div>\n
The girls will need seven days of flubenvet but if this is what is troubling Sparkle there should be an improvement in a couple of days. I will continue to put her in the cat box unless she returns to eating normally in which case she can join in with the other girls.<\/p>\n
I am now feeling hopeful that sparkle should soon be back to normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s now been two weeks since we first noticed that Sparkle wasn’t well. She finished her course of antibiotics four days ago. Since she was first unwell she hasn’t had a dust bath but spends a lot of time preening … Continue reading